State budget in 2018 (results and management)
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The Court of Auditors publishes its report on the State budget in 2018, as well as 66 analyses of budget implementation, including by mission and programme.
In 2018, implementation was better controlled than in previous years, in particular thanks to a more sincere programming of expenditure. Despite higher-than-expected revenues, the government deficit widened, however, due to tax and expenditure cuts that continue to increase, even at a slower pace, notably the wage bill. The deficit of the State thus diverges from that of the general government as a whole, demonstrating its special place within it.
The ever-increasing complexity of the State’s fiscal framework, which is also incomplete and unstable, hampers the analysis of expenditure and its effectiveness, in particular because of the scale of tax expenditure and the increasing use of funds without legal personality. The performance approach, which has a disappointing track record, needs to be re-founded to improve the efficiency of spending.
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